The Millions » Literary Atlas http://www.themillions.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:14:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Millions’ Collaborative Atlas of Book Stores and Literary Places Update: Because Google's tools for maintaining this map are limited, and because the map was getting frequent spammy and irrelevant edits, we've closed the editing feature on the map for now. In the meantime, the map includes plenty of stores and places to check out. Hopefully we'll be ... http://www.themillions.com/2009/03/millions-collaborative-atlas-of-book_18.html Islands in the Stream: Our “Walking Tour of New York’s Independent Bookstores,” Revised and Expanded **We're doing a version of this tour in May. Click here to get all the details.I. IntroductionBy the time our original "Walking Tour of New York's Independent Bookstores" hit the web in 2007, its first stop - the Gotham Book Mart - had closed its doors for good. As ... http://www.themillions.com/2009/03/islands-in-stream-our-tour-of-new-york_17.html Islands in the Stream: A Walking Tour of New York’s Independent Booksellers "Experience has fallen in value. And it looks as if it is continuing to fall into bottomlessness.""It is no longer intelligence coming from afar, but the information which supplies a handle for what is nearest that gets the readiest hearing." -Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller." Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn.When it comes ... http://www.themillions.com/2007/04/islands-in-stream-walking-tour-of-new.html